Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology brings together scientists from diverse backgrounds (natural sciences and humanities) with the aim of investigating the history of humankind from an interdisciplinary perspective using comparative analyses of genes, cultures, cognitive abilities, languages and social systems of past and present human populations, as well as those of primates closely related to humans.

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Beyond the alpha male

Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture

Primate studies challenge male-dominance norms

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A rare form of leprosy existed in the Americas for thousands of years

Archaeogenetics

A new study has reconstructed two 4000-year-old genomes from the rare pathogen Mycobacterium lepromatosis

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Annika Tjuka receives the Otto Hahn Medal

Linguistic and Cultural Evolution

Each year, the Max Planck Society recognises young researchers for their exceptional scientific achievements…

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